Russian Election Video Shows Men Getting Naked Together

In a video to encourage people to vote in the upcoming Russian elections, an organization shows two men taking off their clothes together. The video was released in the Samara region and it has two men talking about the elections. They sit on a park bench, ride a bus, stand at a urinal, walk into an apartment building, and start taking off their clothes. One man then sits on the bed in his underwear and the other man shuts the door.

But what does this have to do with the election or getting people out to vote? The video is implying that people who do not vote in the elections are gay and therefore ‘bad’.

“The message in this video, that if you do not go to the polls, then you are gay. How childish is that?” wrote one social media user.

The Russian LGBT Network’s chair, Mikhail Tumasov, said: “I regard this video as a new wave of using LGBTIQ people as some kind of antisocial irresponsible people, which once again shows the need to repeal the law of 2013, a similar practice at this level is the result of incendiary hatred of people under the “plausible” context,” he told Gay Star News.